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Record Number: CAB0010

Related Work: Ivanhoe

Illustration Title/Caption: The Black Knight and Friar Tuck

Keyword(s): Cottages - Dogs - Horses - Richard Coeur de Lion ('The Black Knight') - Tuck, Friar

Artist: Alexander Fraser, the elder

Engraver: Robert Edward Branston

Work Type: wood engraving

Size(cm): 9.7 x 6.9

Date: 1841

Source Text: Waverley Novels [Cabinet Edition] (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1841-43)

Position in Source Text: vol. 9 (title-page vignette)

Location of Copy: NLS, NG.1171.i/9

Image File Name: No image available for this record.


Notes: Depicts Richard Coeur de Lion (as the Black Knight) at the door of the cottage of Friar Tuck, who stands on the threshold with a torch [Ch. 16].

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